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<h1 align="center"><span class="pagetitle">About Lists in HTML...</span><br>
<font size=2>= <span class="sitetitle">Index DOT Html</span> by <a href="../../misc/email.htm">Brian Wilson</a> =</font></h1>
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     <td valign=top align=center><a href="#justify">Justification</a> |
     <a href="#physvirt">Physical Vs. Virtual Lists</a></td>
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<dt><big><b class="mainheading">Justification for Lists</b></big>
     <dd>The list styles available in HTML provide a way to organize groups
     of information into visually and logically distinct structures. Each list
     style type provides its own method of data organization and should be
     rendered differently from the other styles (though this is often not the
     case.) All of the HTML list structures were introduced in HTML 2.0 when
     there were not any alternative cataloging methods for content (such as tables.)
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<dt><big><b class="mainheading">Physical Vs. Virtual List Styles</b></big>
<dt><b class="subheading">Physical List Styles</b>
<dt>[&lt;<a href="d/dl.htm">dl</a>&gt;, &lt;<a href="o/ol.htm">ol</a>&gt;,
    &lt;<a href="u/ul.htm">ul</a>&gt;]
    <dd>These styles each have common display properties that will generally
        stay the same from one browser to another.
    <dd><b class="l3heading">Definition List (DL)</b>: This list type represents a list of
        terms and corresponding definitions.
    <dd><b class="l3heading">Ordered List (OL)</b>: These are lists where the items
        need to be sorted by sequence or order of importance. The values in
        the list marking scheme increment with each successive list item
        using an familiar sequence (usually 1,2,3,... but other sequencing can be used.)
    <dd><b class="l3heading">Unordered List (UL)</b>: This list type specifies standard
        symbols to use as non-ordered list markers. For each successive list
        item, the symbol will remain the same.

<dt><br><b class="subheading">Virtual List Styles</b>
<dt>[&lt;<a href="d/dir.htm">dir</a>&gt;, &lt;<a href="m/menu.htm">menu</a>&gt;]
    <dd>These list styles have an intended use, but a distinct and consistent formatting
        strategy has never been established for their display in most browsers. They
        are usually displayed as one of the other physical list styles.
     <dd><b class="l3heading">Menu List (MENU)</b>: This style is used for a list
         of items typically having one line per item.
     <dd><b class="l3heading">Directory List (DIR)</b>: This style is used to represent
         a list of short items.

<dt><br><b class="subheading">List Items</b>
<dt>[&lt;<a href="l/li.htm">li</a>&gt;,
    &lt;<a href="d/dtdd.htm">dt</a>&gt;, &lt;<a href="d/dtdd.htm">dd</a>&gt;]
    <dd>The List styles mentioned above detail the <em>TYPE</em> of
        information contained, but the List Item markers delineate the
        separate items within these list structures.
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<dt><b class="subheading">Official References</b>
<dt><a href="http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc1866.txt" class="relevant">http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc1866.txt</a>
    <dd><span class="relevant">RFC 1866: The HTML 2.0 specification (plain text)</span>
<dt><a href="http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/html-spec/" class="relevant">http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/html-spec</a>
    <dd><span class="relevant">The web version of the HTML 2.0 (RFC 1866) specification</span>
<dt><a href="http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/Wilbur/" class="relevant">http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/Wilbur/</a>
    <dd><span class="relevant">The HTML 3.2 (Wilbur) recommendation<br>
        [Includes all HTML 2 list elements and newer extensions to these elements]</span>
<dt><a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/" class="relevant">http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/</a>
    <dd><span class="relevant">The HTML 4.0 Recommendation<br>
        [Includes all 2.0, and 3.2 elements plus many new features]</span>
<dt><a href="http://wp.netscape.com/assist/net_sites/html_extensions.html" class="relevant">http://wp.netscape.com/assist/net_sites/html_extensions.html</a>
    <dd><span class="relevant">Netscape Extensions to HTML 2.0<br>
        [Details extensions to ordered and unordered list structures]</span>
<dt><a href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/workshop/author/html/reference/elements.asp" class="relevant">http://msdn.microsoft.com/workshop/author/html/reference/elements.asp</a>
    <dd><span class="relevant">Internet Explorer Tag reference<br>
        [Details list usage as well as 2.0, 3.2 and common extensions]</span>
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